From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#55645: src/print.c; print_object changes make it impossible to compare elisp code across versions Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2022 13:35:05 +0200 Message-ID: <878rqcacgm.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87zgj4biw7.fsf@gnus.org> <874k1b9ser.fsf@gnus.org> <874k1a54ap.fsf@gnus.org> <87o7zg1nut.fsf@gnus.org> <83v8tojrr5.fsf@gnu.org> <83czfobxht.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5015"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Tom Gillespie , 55645@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 04 13:36:11 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nxS4g-00013C-G1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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And here I'm asking Lars > what are the reasons for the change, except some aesthetics-related > considerations, whereby we basically didn't see why the escapes are > needed. If the only problems are that we didn't see a good reason for > keeping the escapes, perhaps now we do have a good reason? It was mostly an aesthetic change, but sometimes aesthetics are important. People do use dot characters in symbols, but it's confusing to see Emacs display these in a weird way -- so they may be discouraged from doing so when that's a natural thing to do. So I'm not very enthusiastic about reverting the change, especially (as you say): > If someone would show me a design that is based on this, I'd tell them > they place their bet on a dubious horse, and suggest to find a better > design. The reason for reverting it would be to support a use case that we don't support anyway. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no